MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 | 7:30–9 PM: Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization, presents MacArthur Fellow and bestselling author Claudia Rankine as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Rankine will read from her new hybrid-genre work Triage, followed by an on-stage conversation led by poet and Rice University professor Phillip B. Williams. The event will conclude with a book signing in the lobby. General admission tickets are $5 and are on sale now, and season tickets are also available. Free tickets for students and senior citizens are available by request. Books will be on sale at the event through Kindred Stories.

Rankine returns to Inprint with her genre-defying new work Triage, which collides the lyric with narrative, memoir, image, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet. Triage follows the turbulent friendship between two characters, the narrator and the theorist, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. According to Jamaica Kincaid, “Claudia Rankine’s remarkable, outstanding odyssey—an account of our present, which is also our past, which is always our future—is beautifully rendered in a kaleidoscope of images and sensations. . . . Triage is exquisite.”